Improvement in regulator for spirit-meters



To all whom it my concern:

prima eine.

LOUIS SGHULZE, -OF LOUISVILLEQ'KENTUOKY.

`Lettrm Patent No. 106,081, dated August 2, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN REGULATOR FCR. SPIRIT-METERS.

The Schedule referred to Vin these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, LOUIS Scriunzn, of Louisville,

in the county of Jelersou andi State of Kentucky,4

n ofthe same, suiiicient'to, enable others skilled in` the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and use thesame, reference vheilig had to the accompanying drawing,` which makes part of this specificatiomand in which` Figure l is a side eleva-tion of my improved regulator; U l l i Figure 2. is a central vertical section of the same; and i Figure 3 is a horizontal section iii-line a: x, lig. 2; 4Like letters of reference 'indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. y My invention consists in the application of a' large reservoir to the' bottomof the vent-pipe, through which latter the steam and hot-air can escape as the low-wine passes from the worm-tub to the meter; thev said reservoir serving to allow the low-wine on this passage to throw ofl' any pressure, so that it will dow evenly through the meter without any more pressure than its own weight. l The vent-pipes now in use rise directly from the pipe which connects the worm-tub' to themeter, and the low-,winepin passing throughfthis pipe under an enormous pressure and at a great speed, has only time to throw oli a portion of the pressure, thegreater part of which latter is still exerted on the scales of the meter ;v `the fluid `strikes the scale not by its own weight merely, but under this pressure, which deto the meter in au unbroken even dow, no pressure beyond its weight being exerted on the`v scale. i

A inthe drawing may represent the \vor|n`tl1b,and

, ,the meter. i r

F is the vent-pipe now in common use, provided with iuclining shelves, f,- alternately, at opposite sides, -and having small openings, e, formed `at the top, through which the steam and hot air escape.

Instead of placing this ventpipe directly ou the 'pipe leading from the worm-tubto the meter, Iv conneet its lower part in any suitable manner to the top` E of the reservoir D,

vThis reservoir D I connect to the worm-tubA by means of a small pipe, d, which enters the reservoir near its top, or at a suitable distance from its bottom, as circumstances may require.

A short pipe, a, extends from near the bottom of the reservoir opposite to whel'e the pipe d enters the same, and connects the reservoir with the meter.

Both pipes d and a, may be made in two parts, to facilitate 4the removal or attachment of theV regulator, the connection being protected .by a capsule constructed so as to be readily sealed.

Permanent connections of said pipes, if made in several parts, such as shown at c, may be Stamped on the entire circumference, to guard against their being i tampered with.

As the lowewine passes from the wormftub, under greaty pressure, -into the reservoir, the latter gradually lills, and arrests the speed of the flow of the liquid which is thus allowed to settle, the steam and hot air which'crcate the pressure of the flow, escaping through the vent-pipe F; the low-winelbeing prevented from passingout of the said vvent-pipe, as it occasionally rises iu the same, by means of inclined shelves f. y

By this means the liquid will flow from the reservoir to the meter in an. unbroken, quiet, even flow, no matter under how much pressure it enters the reservon'.

It is not essential that' the bottom of the reservoir should be matie straight, as showu in the drawing, as, in large distilleries where the pressure is very great, it will be found that a concave bottom will arrest the great speed of the indowingliquid.

In this case the pipe a may extend into the reservoir, and be bent slightly downward.

I am well aware that the veut-pipel F is now in common use, and this I do not claim; but l What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

1. The reservoir D, when applied to regulating ventpipes of regulators for spirit-meters, substantially as i herein described.

2. The combination, with the vent-pipe F, of the reservoir D, and pipes d a, substantially as and fo the purpose described.

' LOUIS SGHULZE.

Witnesses:

MARTIN MILLER, SAML. RIsnEY; 

